Forty-one years after cancer, she's still walking

When Joan Litt was diagnosed with breast cancer 41 years ago, she was scared — but she never gave up. Four decades later, the East Brunswick woman is thriving: she walks the treadmill daily, co-leads her local Brandeis chapter, volunteers with Komen, and sits down with newly diagnosed people to tell them what she knows — a diagnosis is not the end of a life, it's the beginning of the next phase. She credits her longtime oncologist, Dr. Michael Nissenblatt, with keeping her alive. Now she passes that lifeline on.